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A father who initially paid £4.99 for his 11-year-old daughter to use a smartphone app was shocked to discover a bill for thousands of pounds a month later.

Steve Cumming, 72, said he let her make what he thought was a one-off payment on his debit card to a firm called Roblox.

After looking at his balance a month later, he saw thousands had been charged.

Roblox says it will refund him.

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Mr Cumming wrote to BBC Radio 2's The Jeremy Vine Show to explain that his 11-year-old eBay great Accounts Shop deals on for with Roblox Find Old confidence daughter had unwittingly run up the enormous bill while playing the game during lockdown.

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During the pandemic lockdown he decided to sign up to online banking.

"I'm not very tech-savvy. Due to coronavirus I couldn't visit the bank and I didn't want to use cash machines, so I decided to sign up to online banking," he said.

When he first logged in, almost a month after that initial payment to Roblox, he was shocked to discover that £4,642 had gone and he was in his overdraft.

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He realised he had lost about £3,500 so he phoned his bank, HSBC, to cancel his card. Despite doing that a further £1,000 or so left his account and was paid to Roblox via Google Play, he says.

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After being approached for comment by the BBC, the company said it would issue a refund.

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His bank HSBC said: "We sympathise with Mr Cumming and appreciate these payments have come as a surprise to him. We have received a claim for a dispute for these payments and we will be taking a closer look at the circumstances surrounding this matter in accordance with Visa dispute regulations."

You can hear an interview with Mr Cumming on Friday's Jeremy Vine Show.